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[quote=Anonymous]Yes, I would follow your instinct and get him tested.  Our DD, now age 10, was just like this.  Young for grade but very bright and "wise beyond her years."  I was surprised she was taking so long to read "Mat and Sam" books in K, but chalked it up to being young for grade.  Then we were shocked in 1st grade when the teacher informed us mid-year that DD was behind in reading and should consider joining the remedial reading group after school.  Her spelling also looked like that of the cow from the Chik Fil A ads.  By second grade she failed the spelling pre-assessment and was put into the lower reading and math groups.  It was taking her forever to do pretty basic homework.  I began to doubt that DD was in fact ever as bright as we had thought in K.

In the Fall of second grade she took the standardized testing for the gifted program at our school.  She scored in the 99th percentile for nonverbal reasoning, and 96th percentile overall for cognitive reasoning.  We had a full neuropsych eval done and she has a 97th percentile IQ, with 99th percentile in auditory processing, but less than 1 percentile in visual processing.  By the time we had the testing done, DD was reading and writing at grade level.  (Spellling was still abysmially low.)  However, the academic testing showed she was very advanced in all reasoning categories (reading comp, mathmatical reasoning, etc.) but below average in the basics, such as phonemic awareness, math computation, etc.  Her main problem is she has trouble with symbolic memory, e.g., irregulary spellings, math symbols, keeping math computation steps straight, etc.

I wish we'd had her tested much earlier, as she was really beginning to develop anxiety about knowing she was "smart" but not being able to be successful at the basic stuff all the other kids breezed through.

She is in 5th grade now and has done well in the AAP program at her school for the past three years.  She has accomodations in an 504, but they really don't amount to much.  AAP has been difficult at times, but she's learned to compensate for and push through her challenges and is proud of herself for what she's accomplished.  
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